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Informationen zum Autor Maja Bajac-Carter is a doctoral candidate in Communication Studies at Kent State University. Her research focuses on gender, identity, and media studies. She is a contributor to We Are What We Sell: How Advertising Shapes American Life . . . and Always Has (2014).Norma Jones has a PhD in communication and information from Kent State University. She is an editor of Rowman & Littlefield's Sports Icons and Issues in Popular Culture book series and is coeditor of Aging Heroes: Growing Old in Popular Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).Bob Batchelor teaches in the Media, Journalism & Film department at Miami University and is the founding editor of the Popular Culture Studies Journal. Batchelor edits the Contemporary American Literature and Cultural History of Television book series for Rowman & Littlefield. Among his books are John Updike: A Critical Biography (2013), Gatsby: The Cultural History of the Great American Novel (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), and Mad Men: A Cultural History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). Klappentext This edited collection offers a variety of perspectives focusing on representation of women as heroines across printed media. In addition, the book extends the discussion of heroines for the broader audience, which provides a much needed, more nuanced discussion of this topic across American popular culture. Contributors go beyond the expected account of women as mothers, wives, warriors, goddesses, and damsels in distress, to provide innovative analysis that situates heroines within culture, revealing them as tough, self-sufficient, and breaking the bounds of gender expectations in places readers may not have expected. Addressing portrayals from Marvel and DC universe, manga, Jack London's novels, to real-life heroes of Iraq war, this is an indispensable book for scholars in rhetoric, literature, popular culture, and others interested in women's issues. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroductionI. LiteratureChapter 1: To Heck with the Village: Fantastic Heroines, Journey and Return, Sandra J. LindowChapter 2: From Duckling to Swan: What Makes a Twilight Heroine Strong, Tricia ClasenChapter 3: Salem's Daughters: Witchcraft, Justice, and the Heroine in Popular Culture, Lauren Lemley Chapter 4: Heroine: Christina of Markyate, K. A. LaityChapter 5: The Bohemian Gypsy, Another Body to Sell: Deciphering Esmeralda in Popular Culture, Adina SchneeweisChapter 6: Writing Women in War: Speaking Through, About, And For Female Soldiers in Iraq, Christina M. SmithII. Exotic, Foreign, Familiar, and QueerChapter 7: The Borderland Construction of Latin American and Latina Heroines in Contemporary Visual Media, Mauricio EspinozaChapter 8: Janissary: An Orientalist Heroine Or a Role Model For Muslim Women?, Itir Erhart & Hande Eslen-ZiyaChapter 9: Representations of Motherhood in X-men, Christopher Paul WagenheimChapter 10: Negotiating Life Spaces: How Marriage Marginalized Storm, Anita McDanielChapter 11: The Mother of All Superheroes: Idealization of Femininity in Wonder Woman, Sharon Zechowski & Caryn E. NeumannChapter 12: Wonder Woman: Lesbian or Dyke? Paradise Island as a Woman's Community, Trina RobbinsChapter 13: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorists to Crimson Caped Crusaders: How Folk and Mainstream Lesbian Heroes Queer Cultural Space, April Jo MurphyIII. Contemporary American Graphic Novels/ComicsChapter 14: Punching Holes in the Sky: Carol Danvers and the Potential of Superheroinism, Nathan MiczoChapter 15: Jumping Rope Naked: John Byrne, Metafiction, and the Comics Code, Roy CookChapter 16: Invisible, Tiny, and Distant: The First Female Superheroes of the Marvel Age of Comics, Joseph DarowskiChapter 17: Heroines Aplenty, but None My Mother Would Know: Marvel's Lack of An Iconic Superheroine , T. Keith EdmundsChapter 18: Liminality and Capitalism in Spider-Woman and Wonder Woman, or: How to Make Stronger (i.e. male) Two Super Powe...
